Year: 2022 | Month: February | Volume 67 | Issue 1s

Editorial

Debashis Sarkar
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.1.2022.26

Abstract:

In India, for several decades post-Independence, elimination of poverty superseded all other priorities of government. This policy, however, had a rural perspective. India lived in her villages and rural poverty was pervasive. Millions of villagers did not have enough food to eat and suffered from hunger and malnutrition. What we understand as ‘absolute poverty,’ the existence of a person below poverty line where he or she is unable to afford the minimum prescribed calorific intake, deserved the highest care. However, concentrated attention on the rural did not stop the country’s urbanisation. In 2021, urban population for India was 35.4%. Over the last 50 years, urban population of India grew substantially from 20.3 to 35.4% rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 1.64% in 1974 and then decreased to 1.34% in 2021.





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